Great music of the 20th century.
Title:
Great music of the 20th century.
ISBN:
9781629975153
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2018]
©2018
Physical Description:
6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"Music appreciation"--Container.
Title from container.
24 lectures (45 min. each).
Course No. 7006.
DVD.
Contents:
disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer! -- Setting the table and parsing out blame -- Debussy and Le Français in musical action -- Russia and Igor Stravinsky -- disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring -- Paradox of Arnold Schoenberg -- Emancipation of melody! -- Second Viennese school -- disc 3. The "New" classicism -- Schoenberg and the 12-tone method -- Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók -- America's musical gift -- disc 4. American Iconoclasts -- World turned upside down -- Electronic music and European Ultraserialism -- Schoenberg in exile -- disc 5. Stravinsky in America -- For every action an equal reaction -- California avant-garde -- Rock around the clock -- disc 6. East meets West: South meets North -- Postmodernism: new tonalty and eclecticism -- New pluralism -- Among friends.
Summary:
Explore the fascinating and surprising connections between famous music and historic events.
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Language Note:
In English ; closed-captioned.
Performer:
Lectures presented by Professor Robert Greenberg.
OCLC Number:
on1029439020
Availability:
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